=================== BUG #4691: LATEST MODIFICATIONS ==================
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=4691&group_id=99
Changes by: Fred Kiefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri 08/15/2003 at 13:50 (GMT)
What | Removed | Added
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Resolution | None | Wont Fix
Status | Declined | Closed
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Hi Alban,
this is not just about closing a bug for GNUstep. If your font configuration for X is
broken there really is nothing we could do about it. Even xlsfonts will fail for you,
which uses very similar interfaces to font_cacher.
And if you want to avoid the use of font_cacher GNUstep offers you different ways to
do so the XFT fonts for xlib or the libart backend.
=================== BUG #4691: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================
Submitted by: prahal Project: GNUstep
Submitted on: Sat 08/09/2003 at 18:45
Category: Backend Severity: 5 - Major
Bug Group: Bug Resolution: Wont Fix
Assigned to: FredKiefer Status: Closed
Summary: with X 4.3 xlib backend is dead (except on bload distros))
Original Submission: this was at first a new :
font_cacher , no error ... all my apps shows no fonts !
and all the color/etc answer not working ending in use backart.
By luck i removed obsolete /etc/X11/XftConfig from one of my distro (even debian
sometimes leaves dead files :(
and font_cacher and font_disappeared , rebuild this file + font_caher , fonts back ....
Could you either remove xlib backend or insert xft2 pathces .
No X server will build, install this file anymore, and XFT1 is dead , god bless it .
Some distributors (as debian) think xlib is ok and provide only this one !
I ask the debian maintenair to move to nfont+backart
nfont is really good but without a compatibility or transitional period it s a real
pain for maintenairs
Alban
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Date: Fri 08/15/2003 at 13:50 By: FredKiefer
Hi Alban,
this is not just about closing a bug for GNUstep. If your font configuration for X is
broken there really is nothing we could do about it. Even xlsfonts will fail for you,
which uses very similar interfaces to font_cacher.
And if you want to avoid the use of font_cacher GNUstep offers you different ways to
do so the XFT fonts for xlib or the libart backend.
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Date: Mon 08/11/2003 at 22:20 By: prahal
There should be support for xft2 since May when patches where submitted, I read your
ML.
As alexm from #gnustep irc channel told me about an xr support and as libart seems a
better option i strongly feels nobody really care for xlib back , it s for newcomers
isn t it ?
By the way i tested on three boxes until now (all debian with 0.8.8 gnustep-back, the
point is testing those debs ), and removing /etc/X11/XftConfig always end up with
font_cacher building an empty cache.
This bug is all about being closed, one way or another . If it s ok in gnustep release
then i fix debian's against X 4.3pre, that is all about it.
Hum , cannot let that go :
(...) xft2 (...) as we already support these (...) was even before fontconfig was
officially available.
huhu X config , ahahah ... thanks.
ps: if you have anything to ask about X config feel free to email me.
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Date: Sun 08/10/2003 at 20:50 By: FredKiefer
The described problem is more a wrong X configuration, which GNUstep cannot help in
any way. The suggested fix that GNUstep should be using xft2 patches is also rather
obsolete as we already support these since backend release 0.8.6. As far as I remember
this was even before fontconfig was officially available.
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